Cover, 2009 54 x 90 Inches, iPhone photograph, archival pigment on canvasFine art photographer Bob Poe is an anomaly on numerous levels in today’s art world. After purchasing a first generation Apple iPhone two years ago, Poe, an autodidactic and successful entrepreneur, made the intrepid move to embrace a full-time career as a fine arts [...]

Sheldon FigotenIt is certainly pleasant to step into Sheldon Figoten’s 1920’s upstairs studio in Mid-Wilshire and be bathed in light flooding in through windows on two sides, but it’s more than exciting to view paintings which emit a powerful light of their own—paintings using pure color and forms created by oil paint poured on stretched [...]

Case Study House No. 22, Los Angeles, Calif., Iconic Girls, 1960; Pierre Koenig, Architect. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute
In Built Upon Love: Architectural Longing After Ethics and Aesthetics (MIT Press), architectural historian Alberto Perez-Gomez puts forward the enticing idea that “true [...]

The Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art’s (LACMA) permanent collection will always hold a special place in my heart. The home of David Hockney’s iconic (and locally relevant), panoramic Pop painting Mullholland Drive, Kurt Schwitters’ Dada masterful assemblage work Construction for Noble Ladies, and brilliant photographs from renowned artist Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills series, [...]

Despite the systems we have devised to measure time, and thus give it the appearance of order and regularity, time remains relative to the circumstances in which we experience its passage. For more than three decades Doni Silver Simons has made marking time into a repetitive image-making ritual resulting in a prolific body of paintings [...]